Scientific classification

Class: Aves

Order: Columbiformes

Family: Columbidae

Subfamily: Raphinae

Genus:Didunculus Peale, 1848

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Very distinctive genus of uncertain affinities, perhaps most closely allied to Gallicolumba. Some early workers placed it in its own family, Didunculidae, but recent molecular analyses indicate that it is basal to a clade containing Goura, Caloenas, Raphus and Pezophaps#R. Single species survives, although a larger, extinct member of the genus has been found in cave deposits on ‘Eua (S Tonga).